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. 2021 Jan 6;7:7. doi: 10.1186/s40814-020-00746-3

Table 3.

Descriptive statistics

District 1 District 1 District 2 District 2 District 3 District 3
Rings 1 and 2 Rings 1, 2, and 3 Rings 1 and 2 Rings 1, 2, and 3 Rings 1 and 2 Rings 1, 2, and 3
N = 16 N = 49 N = 19 N = 75 N = 20 N = 69
T0 T1 T0 T1 T0 T1 T0 T1 T0 T1 T0 T1
Number of contacts
 Avg. degree 5.13 7.56 5.79 7.00 4.00 5.53 4.25 4.31 4.81 6.20 4.68 5.26
 Density (%) 34 51 12 15 22 31 6 6 19 33 7 8
 E-I index
  Ring 1
   Internal avg. degree 4.8 7.5 3.6 5.1 2.0 3.8
   Internal contacts 26 38 42 56 8 14
   External contacts 32 44 28 43 38 51
  Ring 2 N.A. N.A. N.A.
   External avg. degree 4.0 5.5 2.4 3.7 2.3 3.2
   Internal contacts 20 22 24 24 102 98
   External contacts 32 44 28 43 38 51
 E-I index
 E-I index ring 1 0.10 0.07 −0.20 −0.13 0.65 0.57
 E-I index ring 2 0.23 0.33 0.08 0.28 −0.46 −0.32
Collaboration
 Reciprocity (%) 49 64 N.A. 25 27 N.A. 40 53 N.A.
Diversity of contacts
 Mean 0.32 0.42 0.36 0.42 0.26 0.32
 (SD) (0.17) (0.14) N.A. (0.15) (0.19) N.A. (0.17) (0.14) N.A.
 Paired T test
 t p value −4.39 < 0.001 2.05 0.055 0.91 0.371
Value of contacts
 Mean 7.3 7.7 7.6 7.8 7.5 7.5
 (SD) N.A. (0.67) (0.47) N.A. (0.61) (0.65) N.A. (0.64) (0.58)
 Paired T test
 t p value −1.28 0.209 −2.35 0.022 −1.12 0.267